To upset the labor market, one of two things needs to happen: an increase in supply, or a decrease in demand.

The latter happened in the auto industry through automation. Today, you can accomplish with $30/month on Shopify what took $500,000 in custom development ten years ago. WordPress does in fifteen minutes what once kept a freelancer busy for two months. Stripe dropped the cost of credit card integration by five-figures.

Maybe you don’t think a total n00b can walk out of a nine-week training program and do your job. But there’s something between that and a four-year, $80,000 Computer Science degree that’s going to work. The friction of entering our labor force is diminishing. Even the social stigma of being a programmer that for so long protected our ranks is going away.

No profession stays on top forever… just ask your recently graduated lawyer friends.